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2014-02-25

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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential
risk of losses to the public purse arising from applying the current accounting officer
conventions in the period leading up to the referendum on Scottish independence in
2014.

<p>I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Treasury.</p><p>The UK Government is
not planning for independence as it believes that people in Scotland will vote to
remain within the UK. As such, the Government has made no assessment of the risk of
losses to the public purse, and has no plans to change accounting officers conventions</p>

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he has had with officials
in his Department on how the accounting officers' conventions would apply to investment
in Scotland in advance of the referendum on Scottish independence in 2014.

<p>I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Treasury.</p><p>The UK Government is
not planning for independence as it believes that people in Scotland will vote to
remain within the UK. As such, the Government has made no assessment of the risk of
losses to the public purse, and has no plans to change accounting officers conventions</p>

<p>Lord Hodgson assessed the Fundraising Standards Board (FRSB) as part of his review
of the Charities Act 2006 and concluded in his report &lsquo;Trusted and Independent:
Giving charity back to charities&rsquo; that it had broadly met 10 of the 12 success
criteria set out when it was established in 2006. The FRSB and Cabinet Office are
members of the Steering Committee established in response to Lord Hodgson's recommendations
to drive forward further progress in strengthening self-regulation.</p>

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what assessment he has made of the outcome of his
Department's matching of the electoral register with Department for Work and Pensions
data in communities with (a) seaside towns and (b) towns with high student populations;
and what effect this work will have on the size of electorates in these constituencies.

<p>As part of the transition to Individual Electoral Registration (IER), entries on
the electoral register will be matched against data held by Department for Work and
Pensions (DWP) for the purposes of confirming existing electors, a process which will
simplify the transition for the majority of existing electors. Last year the Cabinet
Office undertook pilots to test this process and we published our evaluation of these
pilots earlier this year which is available to download from:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/simplifying-the-transition-to-individual-electoral-registration</p><p>
</p><p>The evaluation report includes an analysis of match rates by population groups
and while no specific analysis was undertaken of seaside towns, the results did suggest
that match rates were lower in areas with high student populations. However, anyone
who cannot be confirmed will still be invited to register individually and will retain
their ability to vote in the 2015 general election. By using confirmation to simplify
the process for the majority of electors it means resources can be focused on maximising
registration among those people who cannot be confirmed, including individuals who
are not currently registered. We are also currently running a separate set of pilots
exploring whether data matching against DWP and other trusted national data sets can
be used to find potential electors who are not currently registered but may be eligible
to do so, in order to invite them to register. The results of the pilots, which are
specifically targeted at boosting registrations among students, attainers and home-movers,
will be published in the summer.</p>